Chapter 303: Tenacious Shamoko
Outside Changsha City, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun had a fierce battle without a winner, Liu Bei was afraid that Zhang Fei would lose, and ordered Ming Jin, although Zhang Fei was unwilling, but he could not violate his brother's love and protection, so he had to agree with Zhao Yun to fight again tomorrow.
"Night raid? Shengshang, tonight's night attack is only afraid that Liu Bei will be prepared. Zhao Yun, who returned to the city, heard that Liu Xie intended to give Liu Bei a "surprise" tonight, and couldn't help frowning and reminding.
"I know, that Liu Bei is not a rice bucket, he will definitely be wary. So we're going to visit twice tonight. Zilong, you take the lead, if you find that Liu Bei is on guard, you don't have to fight, just lead the army back to the city. After that, the main event is the main event, I will personally lead the team and go to say hello to Liu Bei. Liu Xie explained to Zhao Yun with a smile.
Zhao Yun is no longer a rookie at the beginning of the year, in addition to practicing martial arts diligently over the years, more time is spent on learning, Liu Xie's explanation does not need Zhao Yun to think much to understand the power of this, and I can't help but admire Liu Xie's "wisdom".
Liu Xie is really familiar with human nature, after he led his troops to attack at night and was discovered by Liu Bei, Liu Bei will definitely be slack, and at this time, Liu Xie will lead the army to kill, and he will definitely be able to kill Liu Bei by surprise. Most people are like that, when the danger has passed, they relax and do not know that there is an even greater danger to come.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Yun, who had already cultivated his spirits, led his troops out of the city quietly and sneaked towards Liu Beijun's camp outside the city. Sure enough, as Xu Shu expected, Liu Bei really guarded against the night attack of the Han army, and when he saw Zhang Fei, Huo Jun and others leading their troops to kill, Zhao Yun did not love to fight, and immediately led his troops to retreat.
That is, when Zhao Yun retreated for less than half an hour, and Liu Beijun, who successfully repelled the Han army, had begun to fall asleep, Liu Xie appeared with the second echelon of the Han army.
"What's going on?" Liu Bei was awakened, and when he learned that Zhao Yun was repulsed, Liu Bei couldn't help but feel a little proud, but he didn't want the Han army to go and return, so he took advantage of his own relaxation. At this time, Liu Beijun was basically resting, and after waiting for Zhao Yun in the middle of the night, he finally drove Zhao Yun away, and Liu Beijun was finally able to sleep peacefully, but he didn't want to sleep in a daze just now, and the Han army killed again.
Without preparation, he could only let the Han army enter the camp and set fire everywhere. Liu Bei originally wanted to organize men and horses to resist, but at this time, Liu Beijun, who was raided by the Han army, was already in a mess, and the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals, and they were scurrying around in the camp like headless flies.
"I'm not leaving!" Facing Zhang Fei, who came to persuade him to go first, Liu Bei refused loudly.
"Brother, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood, go quickly." Zhang Fei hurriedly persuaded while reaching out to pull Liu Bei. But Liu Bei seemed to have gotten into the tip of the horns, and he just refused to leave.
"Liu Beixiu is leaving!" Just as Liu Bei was arguing with Zhang Fei, a slightly excited voice came from a distance. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei followed the prestige, and the two couldn't help but be taken aback, and shouted almost at the same time: "Lu Bu!? ”
I saw a red rabbit horse under the crotch of the comer, and the halberd in his hand, trying to break up the crowd and kill this side. But when the person got closer, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei realized that the person who came was not Lu Bu, the age was not right, the age of the person who came was only in his early twenties, but the dress was the same as that of Lu Bu back then.
"Brother go quickly, leave it to the younger brother here." Zhang Fei couldn't be pretentious with Liu Bei anymore, forcibly helped Liu Bei onto the horse, and then instructed Zhang Bao beside him: "Xingguo, quickly protect your uncle and leave." ”
"Yide, be careful." Liu Bei had no choice but to tell Zhang Feidao.
Seeing that "Lu Bu" had rushed to the front, Zhang Fei didn't care about replying, and urged him to step forward to intercept the general, and shouted: "Come to the general name, your third master Zhang will not kill the nobody." ”
"Zhang Fei, remember that the person who killed you was Cao Zhang and Cao Ziwen!" Cao Zhang shouted, and at the same time, the man on the horse stood up, and the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand was raised high, and it smashed down on Zhang Fei fiercely.
Zhang Fei raised the snake spear in his hand, and raised the fire to the sky to frame Fang Tian's halberd, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and blurted out: "Good strength, I didn't expect Cao Mengde to give birth to a tiger." ”
And Cao Zhang, who was blocked by Zhang Fei with all his strength, was a little shocked in his heart, how much strength he had Cao Zhang, of course, knew in his heart, even if he was not the first among his peers, he could at least rank in the top five, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even let Zhang Fei move a step back.
"Look at the move!" The newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, although Zhang Fei blocked the blow with all his strength, but Cao Zhang was not timid, and immediately shouted.
"Good time." Zhang Fei also shouted, raised his spear and fought with Cao Zhang. However, Zhang Fei had no intention of fighting, the Han army succeeded in a sneak attack, Zhang Fei was entangled with Cao Zhang at this time, and sooner or later he would fall into a heavy siege, and it would not be easy to run at that time. Don't look at Zhang Fei's rudeness, but he is rough and fine, and his heart is like a mirror, knowing when to fight to the death and not retreating, and when to need a "strategic transfer" regardless of face.
After Cao Zhang's fight for more than 30 years, Zhang Fei estimated that Liu Bei had escaped safely, and he was not ready to continue to waste time with Cao Zhang. ”
Hearing Zhang Fei's words, Cao Zhang couldn't help but be angry, he was so angry that he screamed, and chased after him, but as soon as he chased a few steps, he was stopped by the sound of Ming Jin behind him. Cao Zhang wanted to continue the pursuit regardless of Mingjin, but he didn't want Liu Xie to seem to have expected that he would disobey the general's order, but when Cao Chang heard Mingjin's voice and did not retreat but advanced, Guan Ping, who was ordered to come, blocked Cao Zhang's way.
"Guan Tanzhi, get out of the way!" Cao Zhang shouted angrily.
"Cao Ziwen, there is a decree in the saint, and the poor are not chased."
“…… How do you know that Zhang Fei has no money? ”
“…… Don't mess around, go back with me. ”
"But ......"
"The saint specially explained, saying that if you Cao Zhang dare to resist the decree and disobey ......" Guan Ping looked at Cao Zhang meaningfully and said.
“…… Don't say it, that's what I want. Cao Zhang replied with a depressed face without waiting for Guan Ping to finish speaking. One thing descends one thing, Cao Zhangtian is not afraid of the ground in this world, even if it is his Lao Tzu Lao Cao, he can't completely make him obedient. But for Liu Xie, Cao Zhang is really afraid. It's not that Liu Xie's force value is higher than Cao Zhang's, but that Cao Zhangzhen is afraid of Liu Xie's "whimsy" of the whole person. Although it will not hurt your life, it will hurt your self-esteem.
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A night attack, killing Liu Beijun, who had been pieced together, scattered and fled. Liu Bei successfully escaped from the predicament under the escort of Zhang Bao, while Zhang Fei took a step too late and asked the Han army to grab his tail. In the face of Zhang Fei, a fierce general in the world, the pursuing Han army was very cautious, and did not clash with Zhang Fei head-on, but stayed far behind Zhang Fei, keeping a distance from Zhang Fei and not allowing Zhang Fei to have a moment to rest.
After all, people are not beaten with iron, even if they are fierce generals in the world, there are times when they are tired. After fighting all night, and at this time, a group of "hanged ghosts" were called behind him, and Zhang Fei's spirit was about to reach the limit. It's not that I didn't think about turning around and killing the pursuers, but as soon as Zhang Fei turned around, the Han troops following behind would scatter, but as soon as Zhang Fei left, they would gather together again.
In order not to bring trouble to Liu Bei, Zhang Fei had to walk alone in the deep mountains and old forests, but it was not a matter to go on like this, Zhang Fei knew in his heart that once he couldn't hold on, he would be a prisoner of the Han army. Just when Zhang Fei was about to despair, someone appeared and saved Zhang Fei.
"Shamoko!? Why are you here? Seeing Shamoke who led someone to pick him up, Zhang Fei asked in surprise.
Shamoko's life has been going hard lately. At the beginning, he shot Gan Ning, the general of the Han army, and really made Shamoke gain fame and fortune, but as Liu Xie led the army south, he publicly offered a reward for Shamoke's head, and Shamoke's life began to be fearful.
When the victory of Chibi was not scored, Shamoke was not enough to scare Liu Xie's bounty, but after the imperial court gained the upper hand, Shamoke had to worry about his own life. Everyone has the opportunity to surrender to the imperial court, but he Shamoke does not, not only not, but as Liu Bei retreats, Shamoke realizes that the eyes of the people around him are becoming more and more wrong.
Maybe Shamoke was too careful, but he was suspicious of a dark ghost, for the sake of his own life, he would not ask someone to chop off his head in the middle of the night to receive a reward from the court, Shamoke ran away and left Liu Bei's camp with his people. And Liu Bei also understood Shamoke's situation, and he maintained a tacit attitude towards Shamoke's departure. But Zhang Fei didn't expect that Shamoke, who left, did not flee back to the mountains of Wuxi to continue to be his barbarian king, but took someone to save himself.
"Alas~ It's hard to say." Shamoke sighed and said to Zhang Fei.
Shamoke did plan to flee back to the mountains to hide at first, but he never dreamed that Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty, was so persistent with him that he really didn't leave him any way to live. He was not the only barbarian who helped Liu Bei at the beginning, and in order to take his life, Liu Xie put forward a condition to those barbarian kings who were willing to submit to the court when they saw the wind and the rudder, that is, if they wanted to obtain the understanding of the court, they must hand over Shamoke's head, otherwise everything would not be discussed.
Although Shamoke is a barbarian king, all he can manage is his own one-third of an acre. When the interests coincide, those who are also barbarian kings like Shamoko naturally call Shamoko brothers. But when it comes to life and death, since it is necessary to have Shamoko's head to calm the anger of the court, then I have to be sorry for Shamoke.
After years of development, Shamoke's Wuxi Man is indeed the strongest among the Wuxi Barbarians, but in the face of the alliance of other Wuxi Barbarians, Shamoke's Wuxi Man is still overwhelmed. Shamoke didn't come to rescue Zhang Fei on purpose, but his tribe was scattered, he escaped with his cronies, he was going to defect to Liu Bei, and he didn't want to meet Zhang Fei halfway.
After listening to Shamoke's story, Zhang Fei couldn't help sighing, but then he was happy again, no matter how unlucky Shamoke was, at least he was lucky, with the protection of Shamoke and others, he Zhang Fei could at least sleep peacefully and recover his energy. If someone else saves him, Zhang Fei also needs to be wary of whether the person who saved him will use himself to ask the court for credit in exchange for a way to live. And Shamoke has no need to worry about this, he is a person who will be killed by the court's high price, even if he uses himself to ask the court to surrender, the court will not let Shamoke go.
Zhang Fei's judgment was correct, Liu Xie would indeed not let Shamoke go. His goal in the future is to lead the Han to the sea, and there are not many generals who are proficient in water warfare. There are only a few who can stand alone. But the sea is vast, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun alone are far from enough, Gan Ning is one of the future commanders of the navy who is favored by Liu Xie, and he is ready to use it in the future, but he didn't expect Shamoke to kill him.
Shamoko regretted that everyone else had a chance to be forgiven by the court, but he couldn't. Now others have pointed the finger at themselves in order to survive, the tribe has been killed and scattered, the clansmen either die or surrender, and there are only more than 500 people around him who can be used, which is completely incomparable with the Wuxi Barbarian King when he had tens of thousands of troops.
There is no regret medicine in this world, and if there is, Shamoko will buy one at all costs. Why did you shoot that arrow in the first place, if you didn't have that arrow, maybe now you are one of the Wuxi barbarian kings recognized by the imperial court. However, there is nowhere to buy regret medicine, and Shamoke has no other choice than to continue to fight with Liu Bei.
Zhang Fei, who was protected by Shamoke, was temporarily safe, and the Han army, which had lost a chance to capture the enemy's general, also returned to the camp and reported the matter to Liu Xie.
"What? Shamoko is not dead? …… He's a big deal. Liu Xie didn't care about Zhang Fei's escape, but was surprised by Shamoke's tenacious vitality. Zhang Fei is Liu Bei's diehard, since he doesn't plan to let Liu Bei go, there is a chance that Zhang Fei won't get it, so Liu Xieda didn't think about subduing Zhang Fei from the beginning. Zhang Fei's escape made Liu Xie feel a little regretful at most.
And Shamoke is different, in Liu Xie's heart, Shamoke must die! Not only because Shamoke sabotaged his plan and harmed Gan Ning's life, Liu Xie wanted to kill Shamoke, but also because he had the intention of deterring the rest of the barbarians. Just like taming a beast, it requires both rigidity and softness, not only the means of softness, but also the deterrence of thunder.
Most barbarians do not obey discipline, and if they want to make them obedient, the first thing to do is to let them know what it means to be afraid. Relying only on words, or blindly accommodating preferential treatment, will only make them forget about it and gain inches.
Shamoko is the person Liu Xie used to deter the barbarians, so that the barbarians who are about to live under the rule of the Han know what the fate of the confrontation against the imperial court is, so Shamoke must die!
It's just that Liu Xie didn't expect that Shamoke's life was as strong as Xiaoqiang, even in the face of the joint encirclement and suppression of more than a dozen barbarian kings, he could still escape. But that's okay, for those barbarian kings who have tens of thousands of troops, Liu Xie is also trying to weaken their strength, Shamoke is not dead, Liu Xie can continue to use this as an excuse to make things difficult for those barbarian kings, so that they have no peaceful life to live, as long as those barbarian kings dare to be dissatisfied, Liu Xie can justifiably order the Han army to clean them up.